Damn you, Internet! For years, you made it so easy to plagiarize with your Wikipedia pages and your blogs written by smart people. Now you make it just as easy to get caught! Students who pillage online sources because they are too lazy or incompetent to write their own essays now must contend with sites such as TurnItIn.com, which let teachers compare their pupils’ work (in digital form, submitted along with a hard copy) with much of what’s posted on the Internet. So even if you borrow one tiny phrase that perfectly expresses The Scarlet Letter’s disdain for the rest of the alphabet, there’s a good chance you’ll get busted. And don’t be surprised if your English teacher Mrs. Chillingworth (no relation) makes you wear a red "P" for the rest of the semester.
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